What to Read When You Want Reparations Now
Ashley M. Jones shares a reading list to celebrate REPARATIONS NOW!.
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Posts Tagged: Sonia Sanchez
Notable Online: 3/7–3/13
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Freedom Knows Who We Are: Talking with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Kelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
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Notable Philadelphia: 2/18–2/24
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable Twin Cities: 3/10-3/16
Literary events in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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Notable Philadelphia: 2/19–2/25
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable Philadelphia: 11/6–11/12
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Notable Philadelphia: 9/11–9/17
Literary events in and around Philly this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Yona Harvey
Yona Harvey talks about her path to becoming a poet, Winnie Mandela as an artistic inspiration, and what it means to write more publicly.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 8): “Song of the Gourd”
“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
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Of Poetry and Protest and Monticello In Mind
Barbara Berman reviews Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmitt Till to Trayvon Martin and Monticello In Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson today in Rumpus Poetry.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 1): “The Idea of Ancestry”
I know / their dark eyes, they know mine.
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All the poetry I have goes other places. It’s still with me. When I think about black lives, or the Black Panther comic, I’m thinking in a poetic sense. In an interview at The Poetry Foundation, Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses the importance of poetry in shaping his writing.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Phillip B. Williams
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
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